Spotify’s US members have listened to a total of 13bn songs during the first
year the service has been live stateside.

The figure was released by the Swedish streaming company to mark the first anniversary of its launch in the US.

Spotify chose not to reveal how many US users it has managed to attract in its first 12 months. However, it did also disclose that 27.8m songs have been shared by its users across a range of services.

Unsurprisingly Facebook was the service that most people chose to share song recommendations with each other – as Spotify teamed up with the social network at the same time it launched in the US in a bid to boost its membership and global footprint.

Fifty-five per cent of those ‘shares’ went through Facebook, while 41.5 per cent happened directly on Spotify and 2.7 per cent via Twitter (with 0.3 per cent through ‘other’ services).

Currently Spotify has 10 million active users – three million of which are paying subscribers.

The Swedish streaming company will eventually benefit from being exposed to nearly 700 million unique users a month who visit the range of Yahoo’s properties.

Initially the Spotify button will just sit on Yahoo!’s music page, but it will soon be rolled out across its entire portfolio.

Earlier this year Spotify launched its ‘play’ button on a range of sites – which allowed the streaming service to broaden its reach beyond its own website and Facebook’s – which it signed a major partnership deal with last year.

As with the ‘play’ button, people will need a Spotify account in order to listen to 16 million songs via Yahoo’s sites.